Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/cewç

This Proto-Yeniseian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Yeniseian

Etymology

Has been compared to Proto-Na-Dene *caj (“stone”). The final *-ç in Yeniseian is a singulative suffix that disappears in the plural.

Noun

*cewç

1. stone

Descendants

• Northern Yeniseian:
  • Ket: ты’сь
  • Yug: чы’сь
• Southern Yeniseian:
  • Arin: kes
  • Assan: šiš
  • Kott: šiš
  • Pumpokol: kit

References

• Vajda, E. (2024) The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 414: “*cew-ç”

Further reading

• Fortescue, M., Vajda, E. (2022) Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 353‒354: “*caj-s”